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People are taking sexy Tinder profile pics at Berlin's Holocaust memorial. Should we really be outraged?

JL;DR SUMMARY The Berlin Holocaust Memorial, an artistic monument to victims of Nazi atrocities, has unexpectedly become a backdrop for Tinder profile pictures and social media posts. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Social MediaCultural InteractionDigital AgeHolocaust MemorialsHistorical TraumaTinderPeter EisenmanBerlin Holocaust MemorialArt And ReflectionPhotography At Memorials

Places mentioned

Berlin, Germany
"Dominating a square in central Berlin, the statue fills a 200,000-square-foot field with black, coffinlike stone pillars."
Prague, Prague, Hlavní mešto, Czechia
"I swiped through London, Rome and finally Prague, which produced one profile of a man leaning in the dark pillared passages of the memorial."
Germany
"The Berlin memorial is not the only place where people seem more focused on striking a pose than honoring the history."
Canada
"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the memorial."

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